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Le monde avant la création de l'homme

Le monde avant la création de l'homme

Le monde avant la création de l'homme

Origines de la terre, origines de la vie, origines de l'humanité
Camille Flammarion
April 2014
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9781108067836
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    French astronomer Camille Flammarion (1842–1925) won acclaim for bringing science to a general readership. His Astronomie populaire (1880) and its translation into English as Popular Astronomy (1894) are both reissued in this series. The present work, on the origins of the Earth and humankind, sold tens of thousands of copies. Flammarion's original purpose was to update Zimmermann's Le monde avant la création de l'homme, published a quarter of a century earlier. However, scientific understanding had progressed so much that he decided to rewrite the work completely. First published in 1886, it contains some 400 wood engravings depicting dramatic landscapes, dinosaurs, fossils and much more. Ranging from early chapters on the universe and solar system, through to later discussion of the emergence of humankind after aeons of evolution, this book will prove an absorbing read for those interested in a nineteenth-century perspective on the origins of life.

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    April 2014
    Paperback
    9781108067836
    882 pages
    254 × 178 × 44 mm
    1.5kg
    412 b/w illus. 13 colour illus.
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    Table of Contents

    • Avertissement des éditeurs
    • Les premiers jours de la terre
    • Livre I. Le Commencement du Monde:
    • 1. La genèse des mondes. Les nébuleuses
    • 2. La formation du système solaire
    • 3. La naissance de la terre
    • Livre II. L'Age Primordial:
    • 1. Les origines de la vie
    • 2. Les origines de la vie (cont.)
    • 3. Développement et progression de la vie
    • 4. Premières plantes et premiers animaux
    • Livre III. L'Age Primaire:
    • 1. Les époques de la nature
    • 2. Les transformations actuelles du sol
    • 3. Le développement de la vie
    • 4. La période carbonifère
    • 5. Fin des temps primaires
    • Livre IV. L'Age Secondaire:
    • 1. La période triasique
    • 2. La période jurassique
    • 3. La période crétacée
    • Livre V. L'Age Tertiare:
    • 1. La période éocène
    • 2. La période miocène
    • 3. La période pliocène
    • Livre VI. L'Age Quaternaire:
    • 1. Le quatrième âge de la vie terrestre et les premiers jours de l'ère actuelle
    • 2. La création de l'homme
    • Table alphabétique des matières
    • Table des figures
    • Table des matières.
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    • Camille Flammarion